Locomotive toy.



H. 0. NORRIS.

LOCOMOTIVE TOY. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 18, m5.

1,161,812, Patented Nov. 23, 1915 of which the following specification is a full j OHIO, ASSIGNOR To THE scHInBL'E TOY & NOVELTY' HARVEY o. NORRIS, or DAYTON,

COMPANY, OF DAYTON, 01-110, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

LOGOMOTIVE TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Nag 23 1915 Application filed January 18, 1915. Serial No. 2,790.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HARVEY O. NORRIS, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in' Locomotive Toys,

disclosure.

My invention relates to an improvement in a friction toy of the inertia-wheel type, which has heretofore been energized by floor contact with the groundrwheel, and the object of this invention is to retain this characteristic but supply an auxiliary friction energizer for the inertia-wheel, which can be actuated from a crank handle in similation of an automobile; this auxiliary energizer being normally held away from driving contact. Also, preferably, the 1nvention is applied to a toy havinga floating type of inertia-wheel axle.

The features of the invention are more fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a top plan view. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the modification. V

I will first describe the preferred form of the invention shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The truck frame 1 is formed with the vertical slots 2 in which are mounted the axles 3 of the ground wheels 4. Only the rear ground wheels are traction wheels. On the inside of the truck upon each side of the frame adjacent the upper peripheries of the rear ground wheels are journaled the antifriction disks 5, 6, 7. The inertia-wheel axle 8 bridges the truck frame, its opposite ends being floatingly supported between the peripheries of the ground wheels upon the outside and the'peripheries of the antifriction disks upon the inside of the frame. The inertia-wheel 9, in Fig. 2, is fixed to an intermediate portion of the shaft. The inertia-wheel axle is formed with the friction cone 12. An energizing shaft 13 is mounted in bearings in the frame in a manner providing longitudinal movement, the shaft being held in its normal position by the spring 14, the end of the shaft projecting to the outside of the frame upon the side or end thereof, and having the crank handle 14*. Fixed to shaft 13 is a beveled friction disk 15, which engages the cone 12 with the friction wedge contact when the shaft 13 is contact is established, the frame may be lifted from the ground and the inertia. wheel speecled up to great velocity. .VVhen placed on the ground the combined weight of the truck, the toy supported thereon, and

the inertia-wheel rest upon the peripheries of the ground wheels without imposing ap axles of the ground preciable friction on the wheels. Whenthetoy is in operation, the driving friction wedge contact will be automatically disengaged. As is apparent from this disclosure, the toy can be energized in the old manner by wedging friction contact resulting from pressure transmitted through bearing the ground wheel against the floor and accelerating the speed of the ground Wheel by a sweeping stroke.

The same principle inheres in the modification shown in Fig. 3, but the hand energizing element is somewhat differently arranged although the truck frame and the ground-wheels are the same. In this form the inertia wheel axle 8 is formed with the two-part inertia wheel 10, 11, to distribute the weight evenly on oppositesides of and within the truck frame. One inertia wheel 10 is formed with a friction cone 12 The energizing shaft 13' is placed longitudinally and medially through the truck frame instead of being transversely supported, the front end having a bearingin the forward end of the truck frame, and the rear end having a bearing in the transverse piece 20, spanning the inside of the truck frame in front of the inertia members 10, 11. On the rear endof said energizing shaft 13 is a beveled friction disk 15 between the members 10,- 11, in position to engage the friction cone, 12". fiaid shaft being held normally in non-engaging position by a spring 1 1 the crank handle l being at the front of the truck.

While it is preferable to provide the antimovable energizing shaft supported in 'bearings in the frame, a bevel friction disk thereon adapted to engage the cone when the energizing shaft is appropriately shifted, and means normally holding said shaft out of energizing position.

- 2. In a toy, a truck frame, ground wheels having axles mounted in slotted bearings in the frame, anti-friction disks supported by the frame, an inertia-wheel and shaft floatingly supported between the peripheries of theanti-friction disks and the ground wheels,

a friction cone for the inertia-wheel, a longitudinally movable energizing shaft supported in bearlngs inthe frame, a bevel fric- Copies of this patent may be obtained for tion disk thereon adapted to engage the cone when the energizingshaft 1s appropriately shifted, and means normally holding said shaft out of energizing position.

3. In a toy, a truck frame, ground wheels mounted in slotted bearings in the frame, an

inertia wheel and axle for frictionally energizing or propelling the ground wheels, operative by sweeping the ground wheels over the floor, and hand operated means comprising engageable and disengageable friction contact rotary members for energizing the inertia wheel while the truck frame is raised 1 from the floor. I

In wltness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name, as attested by the two subscribing witnesses. I

HARVEY O. NORRIS.

, Witnesses:

L. ROY Emmi, H. W. FRANK.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). C. 

